Joseph Schulman, MD, MS, is a neonatologist. He serves as Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Quality Measurement and Improvement, and is a Public Health Medical Officer (grade III), at California Children’s Services (CCS) / California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). He is responsible for CCS NICU standards of care and reviews clinical care and outcomes at more than 125 NICUs across California, which serve more than 50,000 admissions annually.
Before joining the California DHCS, he was Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Newborn Medicine) and Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health (Outcomes and Effectiveness) at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Attending Neonatologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York City. He has been a leader in NICU quality improvement efforts in New York, California, as well and nationally/internationally with the Vermont Oxford Network and theCenters for Disease Control (CDC).His many peer-reviewed publications concentrate on NICU performance evaluation and quality improvement, clinical informatics, and infection prevention/antibiotic use. He is the sole author of two books published by BMJ Books/Blackwell/John Wiley: 1) Evaluating the Processes of Neonatal Intensive Care, and 2) Managing Your Patients’ Data in the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. Dr. Schulman’s work straddles knowledge domains uncommonly integrated by a single individual: clinical neonatology, database design and implementation, analytical and enumerative statistical methods, clinical quality improvement, health services research, and claims data analysis.
Dr. Schulman earned his M.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. degree in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, now called the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He completed his neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Duke University Medical Center.